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One of the first season's episodes marked the ONLY visit to KNOTS LANDING by DALLAS' favorite teenager, the rebellious daughter of Gary and Valene Ewing. Lucy has discovered that her long-divorced parents have not only remarried in secret but have moved away from J.R. and Texas to a Southern California beach town, planning to tell her when they know they will remain remarried. She flies out west for a visit. She is relatively cold at first to Gary, who shows great concern at her free-spirited independence. She resents that her alcoholic gambler father was not concerned about her welfare for the first 17 years of her life, and often turns to her mother while all but avoiding her father. However, by the end of the episode, Lucy is running on the beach hand-in-hand with her parents, all forgiven to the series' memorable and beautiful Emmy-winning score. The acting, directing and editing are great. All the major and some minor characters have plenty to do in this episode--even the often overlooked Kenny and Ginger Ward and Diana Fairgate. Too bad Lucy did not make more guest appearances. In fact, by the seventh season there was talk of her rejoining KNOTS, to which she allegedly declined for a return to DALLAS--a show which gave her no major storyline in its last years. She disappeared for good in 1990, perhaps wishing she had went back to the spin off.